Thanks. My budget would probably run to a few metres of plastic trim, although that will bring the total cost of the project up to about £20 :)...
Thanks for the advice... if I were doing this again, I suspect I'd do everything differently. I did consider glass and poly resin, but it's just...
Yes. Actually, I looked at the second-hand mirror, and it wasn't in terrifically good shape. I imagine it would take longer, and cost more, to...
I'm building a similar one, but not so long, from plywood. I don't anticipate spending any money on resin or glass tape or any of that stuff...
Well I'm pleased to report that, since sealing the joins with thickened epoxy, my cheapo boat is now _almost_ watertight. There's still a tiny...
Sorry to rain on the parade, but this doesn't look to be a good time to be trying to set up a business selling boats -- except perhaps battleships...
Cool. That's the cheapest I have seen epoxy in the UK. It's almost affordable :) Thanks. I will bear this in mind if my dirty repair doesn't do...
Sigh. I wish I could. But I sealed the screw holes with epoxy putty (because I had some left over from a car repair) :/ Oh, well, we live and...
Thank you for your advice. I'm not working to any particular design, but the thing I've built is very much like the designs that were published...
Thanks for the suggestions. I think part of the problem is that there aren't any (visible) gaps or cracks between the plywood bits, or between the...
Hi all I'm a first-time boat-builder although I have (or so I thought) reasonable carpentry skills. I've built a small plywood flat-bottom...
Well, I didn't use plans -- I'm just throwing together something that has a flat bottom, tapers slightly towards the front (because that seems a...
Thanks for the suggestions. I'm a tolerably competent woodworker but this will be my first boat. I'm more familiar with wooden buildings, to be...
I have access to a large-ish amount of ex-Navy epoxy paint (in battleship grey, of course). I don't know anything about its formulation, but I...
With hindsight, I might perhaps have used no screws at all, just clamped the parts together. But now I've built the basic structure, I think I'm...
I am currently building the same thing you are considering. I want a large, flat boat that won't tip easily and will carry plenty of stuff. It's...
